ONPA
Ohio News Photographers Association
ASSOCIATED PRESS SOCIETY OF OHIO 2013 AWARDS
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Newspapers in Columbus, Youngstown, Sandusky, Ashland, Medina and Lancaster were named the best in the state Sunday in the annual Ohio Associated Press Media Editors newspaper competition. General Excellence awards for 2013 went to The Columbus...
Katie Rausch and Josh Bickel are 2013 ONPA POYs
Katie Rausch of The (Toledo) Blade and Joshua A. Bickel from ThisWeek Community Newspapers in Columbus are the ONPA News Photographers of the Year for their work in 2013. Rausch won in the large market category and Bickel won the small market category. Both are first...
Ali Ghanbari wins 10th ONPA Televsion POY title
Ali Ghanbari from WJW-TV in Cleveland has won his fourth straight ONPA Television Photographer of the Year title and his tenth overall. In his career he has also won two Quarterly Clip POY titles. Ghanbari placed in all but one category and captured first in general...
Results from ONPA online photojournalism contest
The judges have started to speak and results from the ONPA year-end Online Photojournalism Contest have now been released. The quality must be improving as only one category was not awarded a full compliment of three places and awards of excellence were presented in...
ONPA workshop & convention at Kent State, April 11-13
After and extended stay in Columbus the annual ONPA convention and workshop is moving to the campus of Kent State University, April 11 - 13. All events will be held at Franklin Hall on campus. The weekends events are free for ONPA members and students.Events will kick...
Kyle Robertson is 2013 ONPA clip contest POY
There’s a new clip king in Ohio after tabulating results from the October and December clip contest. After finishing second for the past two years in very close competitions Kyle Robertson from The Columbus Dispatch won the 2013 contest with a comfortable 262 point...
Rules posted for ONPA annual television contest
The entry rules for the annual ONPA Televsion Contest are now avaiable online. Entry links are to be submitted via e-mail to contest chairman Anthony Mirones by midnight February 21, 2014.
ONPA call for entires for 2013 still and online contests
The call for entries has been made for the ONPA Annual Still Contest and for the first time those entries will be submitted via the web much like the monthly clip contest has for past two years. Details of how to submit your entries are on page two of...
Dan winters lecture Thursday at OU
NPPAOU will be hosting photographer Dan Winters at Ohio University on Thursday, November 7th. He will be giving a lecture at 8 p.m. in Walter Hall Room 135. We encourage anyone to attend, the event is free and open to the public. We would love to see a full house. It...
ASSOCIATED PRESS SOCIETY OF OHIO 2012 AWARDS
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Newspapers in Cleveland, Canton, Springfield, Chillicothe and East Liverpool were named the best in the state in the annual Ohio Associated Press Media Editors newspaper competition. General Excellence awards for 2012 went to The (Cleveland)...
Television quarterly contest to end, Ghanbari wins title for 2012
Ali Ghanbari, from WJW-TV in Cleveland, had one second place win in the final quarter and held on to win the 2012 ONPA Quarterly Television Clip Contest by three points over Jeff Ritter, from WBNS-TV in Columbus. Like Ghanbari, Ritter, the 2010 title holder, had one...
Chan, Lackey and Roussos win POY titles, students sweep major awards
Somebody finally opened the door for Gus Chan, from The Plain Dealer, who was chosen as the ONPA Photographer of the Year in the large market division for 2012. Chan has been persistently knocking on the door, placing second or third in the competition five times in...
ONPA contest judging
Judging for the ONPA annaul still contest in underway at The Columbus Dispatch. Results will be posted and updated through out the process and available on the ONPA website. Results from the online journalism portion of the contest can also be found there.
Ali Ghanbari wins 9th ONPA Photographer of the Year title
Ali Ghanbari of WJW-TV in Cleveland has added to his lengthy list of awards adding his ninth ONPA Photographer of the Year title to his resume. Billy Muhammed, also from WJW was the runner-up in this year's contest. Jeff Ritter from WBNS-TV in Columbus was third with...
Schedule is set for educational seminar at The Columbus Dispatch
Contest entries have been submitted and now it is time to focus on the 62nd annual ONPA educational seminar at The Columbus Dispatch on April 20. The event will follow last year's format and is free to attend for ONPA members in good standing. Anyone wishing to become...
The Sporting Life
Photographer Ron Kuntz has been ringside with Ali, on the green with Nicklaus and in the end zone with Reggie Rucker. But he has a special place in his heart for the Tribe, the team he's been shooting for five decades. Brian E. Albrecht The Plain Dealer Several...
Remembering Ron Kuntz
Ron Kuntz works the NEC World Series of Golf in Akron with his signature Australian bush hat. The world has lost a great photographer, and an even finer human being with the passing of Ron Kuntz. Many people are remembered for what they did for a living, but fewer are...
Lisa Dejong is ONPA 2012 Clip Contest Photographer of the Year
While the final top ten standings were dominated with names of photographers from The Columbus Dispatch (six) it was Lisa DeJong from The Plain Dealer who came out on top to win the ONPA 2012 Clip Contest Photographer of the Year title. DeJong trailed Kyle...
Still contest deadline approaching
The deadline for the ONPA annual contest is fast approaching. Enter contest now and renew your 2013 membership dues for only $50.00, a $10.00 savings. You can pay online through the ONPA website clicking on the Renew tab and access the online renewal...
Fullerton Scholarship entries now being accepted
Entries are now being accepted for the Larry Fullerton Photojournalism Scholarship. This year two scholarships are available, first place will receive $3,000 and the runner-up, $1,400. These funds will be deposited with the recipient's university bursar, to be used...
ONPA Television Contest entries now being accepted
Television contest rules are now posted and members have until February 7 to submit their entries to contest chairman Anthony Mirones. There are no changes from the previous year other that Mirons taking over for David Bradford. Ali Ghnabari from WJW-TV in Cleveland...
ONPA call for entries
Entries are now being accepted for the annual ONPA still/online photojournalism contest. Rules are available to download here.Still contest entries must be in the hands of contest chairman David Polcyn by 6 p.m., Thursday, February 28, 2013. Those entering the online...
White House News Photographers opens contest to non-members
The White House News Photographers Association, home of one of the country's oldest and most respected news photography contests, is proud to play host this year to the first National Eyes of History political photo contest. For the first time, we're hosting a contest...
Did you forget to renew in 2012?
It’s not too late! Renew your dues now to be eligible for the 2012 year-end contest. First-time members, join now to be eligible for the 2012 contest and get your 2013 dues waved as a bonus.Joining is easy, find the application online and use your credit card. If...
Richard “Bix” Bixler dies at 84
Longtime ONPA member Richard Bixler died Friday at 84. Bixler's freelance calling card, "Pix by Bix" always seemed to be a marketing tool with staying power. I have had young photographers quiz me on the slogan they had heard, even though they never met the man, who...
1st quarter television contest results released
Contest chairman Matthew Pawuk has released the first quarter television contests results. Its too early in the year to zone in on who is on top, but one thing we can tell is that it looks to be a very competitive contest with nine different photographers placing in...
And the winners are:
Fox 8 videographer, Billy Muhammed won the membership drawing so his contest fee will be waived in 2012. Mansfield News Journal photojournalist, Polcyn, will be attending the Kent Multimedia Workshop, courtesy of ONPA.The workshop is a three-day, hands-on video and...
Drawing for ONPA member to attend Kent Multimedia Workshop
Renew your ONPA membership before Memorial Day and you will be eligible to win a spot in the Kent Multimedia Workshop, sponsored in part by the ONPA. The three-day, hands-on video and photography multimedia storytelling workshop will be held on June 14-16 in Franklin...
Associated Press Society of Ohio 2011 awards
Newspapers in Columbus, Canton, Sandusky, East Liverpool and Fremont were named the best in the state Sunday in the annual Associated Press Society of Ohio newspaper competition. General Excellence awards for 2011 went to The Columbus Dispatch, The (Canton)...
Kent State to host first Kent Multimedia Workshop
Kent State University's School of Journalism & Mass Communication will be hosting its first Kent Multimedia Workshop - a three-day, hands-on video and photography multimedia storytelling workshop - June 14-16 in Franklin Hall on the Kent Campus.Media...
February clip contest results
February ONPA monthly clip contest results are in with Lisa DeJong of The Plain Dealer being the big winner for the month with fours win, three of which were second place wins. The 152 points earned puts her atop the standings.Fred Squillante, Shari Lewis and Kyle...
Quarterly television contest call for entries
Matthew Pawuk from WTOL-TV in Toledo has stepped forward to take over the reins of the ONPA Television Quarterly Contest and is now accepting entries from the first quarter. Due to the change the deadline for the first quarter has been extended to April 30th. Updated...
DeJong, Lackey win ONPA POY honors
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Lisa DeJong from The Plain Dealer and Bill Lackey from the Springfield News Sun are once again ONPA Photographers of the Year. DeJong won in the large market category for the third time in four years and Lackey won the small market category for the...
ONPA Online Photojournalism contest results now online
Judging of the annual ONPA still contest begins Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at The Columbus Dispatch. Single catagories will be judged first, followed by stories and then portfolios. Results and winning images will be posted throughout the two-day process on the ONPA...
Columbus Dispatch to be the first to convert to a compact tabloid
The stately oak is being trimmed to a flowering ornamental as the dead tree version of The Columbus Dispatch is converted to a compact tabloid beginning this fall.The paper will be the first in the world to utilize new press technology which which not only allows the...
Keating to leave the Cincinnati Enquirer
Veteran Cincinnati Enquirer photojournalist and longtime ONPA member Michael E. Keating is taking a buyout from the newspaper.The paper's parent company Gannett made an offer to 800 eligible employees and will reportedly grant requests to 665 employees all of which...
Schedule revised for ONPA seminar
The scheduleof events for the ONPA educational seminar Saturday, April 14 at The Columbus Dispatch has been revised. Note the changes if you were coming to hear a particular speaker.Revised seminar schedule of events9:00 a.m. - Eye-Opener: Dispatch Year in Review...
Seminar and still contest judging return to The Disptach
The annual ONPA educational seminar and still contest picture judging returns to The Columbus Dispatch, April 12-14. The event will follow last year's format and is free to attend for ONPA members in good standing. Anyone wishing to become a member can do so at the...
Bradford, Ghanbari winners in NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism
David Bradford and Ali Ghanbari of WJW-TV in Cleveland were among the winners in NPPA's 2012 Best of Photojournalism contest. Bradford won first place in the Photo Essay category of video editing for his entry "Lets Roll", a story about the annual pumpkin roll on...
Lauron wins his fourth ONPA clip POY title
Results of the long-lost September clip contest are in and as expected Neal C. Lauron of The Columbus Dispatch is the 2011 Monthly Still Clip Contest Photographer of the Year. Kyle Robertson of The Dispatch retained his hold on second place, while co-worker Eric...
ONPA Clip contest update
As regular entrants of the ONPA monthly still clip contest can tell you, the backlog of results is now behind us as several months of winners notifications have been flooding e-mail boxes the past several weeks. The last of those sent includes results from the...
Ghabari, Bradford win ONPA television POY titles
Two photographers who are no strangers to having a POY title linked to their name, have once again been recognized as Ohio News Photographers Association Photographers of the Year. Ali Ghanbari and David Bradford, who both work at WJW-TV in Cleveland, won top honors...
Alex Webb to speak at Ohio University
Come see Alex Webb speak at Baker Center Theater at Ohio University onWednesday, February 29 at 7:30 p.m.This event is open to the public.Alex Webb became interested in photography during high school and attendedthe Apeiron Workshops in Millerton, New York, in 1972....
Larry Fullerton Photojournalsim Scholarship entries being accpeted
Entries are now being accepted for the Larry Fullerton Photojournalism Scholarship. This year two scholarships are available, first place will receive $3,000 and the runner-up, $1,200. These funds will be deposited with the recipient's university bursar, to be used...
ONPA clip contest going digital
The dead tree version version of the ONPA monthly still clip contest has come to an end. Put away your scissors, Sharpies and clip labels, the contest is going digital. The contest is also expanding adding a sports feature category.The changes will take affect with...
ONPA call for entries
Entries are now being accepted for the annual ONPA still/online photojournalism contest. Rules are available to download here.The deadline for entries of both contests is Wednesday, February 29. Still contest entries will be judged during the annual convention April...
NPPA call for entries
NPPA's2012 Best Of Photojournalism annual competition has opened for entries, and you can now submit and view your entries online.The deadline for the Best Of Television Photojournalism contest is January 27, and the Best Of Still Photography, Photojournalism Editing,...
ONPA Television contest rules now online
Rules for the 2011 ONPA annual television contest have been updated and posted online. The deadline for entries is Jan 31, 2012. Questions concerning the contest can be directed to contest coordinator David Bradford.
January clip contest results arrive – Finally
The very long awaited January still clip contest results have finally arrived from the judges and been forwarded to the winners.The point standings and image galleries have been updated on the ONPA website.Top 10 standings1st - Kyle Robertson, The Columbus Dispatch -...
Ed Reinke dies after being injured at Kentucky Speedway
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Ed Reinke, an award-winning Associated Press photographer who traveled worldwide and was known for his striking pictures of Kentucky news and sporting events, has died following an injury, according to his family. He was 60. Reinke began his...
Former POYs compete for top spot in quarterly television contest
Interest remains strong with a competitive race taking shape as the ONPA Quarterly Television Clip Contest enters the halfway point. David Bradford from WJW-TV in Cleveland and Jeff Ritter from WBNS-TV in Columbus are tied for first place with 36 points with Ali...
Larry Price loses his job, but tells it like it is
Larry Price, director of photography at the Dayton Daily News, stepped down from his position rather than make drastic staff cuts ordered by management and reported in a story written by Dayton Business Journal reporter Ginger Christ. Christ also quotes Price on her...
Buckeye Television Seminar revisited
The ONPA Buckeye Television Seminar was a rousing success earlier this month at WDTN-TV in Dayton with about 30 photojournalists attending. The goal was to motivate people to become better at their craft and to remind them that being an active member of ONPA can aid...
Ali Ghanbari wins his seventh ONPA television POY title
Already a legend in the annals of Ohio television news photography, Ali Ghanbari from WJW-TV in Cleveland, has proved once again he is the best at what he does winning his seventh ONPA Television Photographer of the Year title for his work in 2010. Jeff Ritter of...
Buckeye Television Seminar set for Aug 6 in Dayton
The Ohio News Photographers Association with the cooperation of WJW-TV Cleveland, WBNS-TV Columbus and WDTN- TV Dayton will hold it's 6th free Buckeye Television Seminar Saturday, August 6 at WDTN-TV in Dayton.The educational program, sponsored by ONPA, will provide...
Entires on the rise in quarterly television contest
The plug once pulled on the ONPA quarterly television contest was reinserted and it seems at this point that was a good call as interest in the first quarter was better than it has been for quite some time. Photographers from WTOL-TV in Toledo and former ONPA POY Ali...
Garza is NPPA Region 4 POY
Ryan Garza from The Flint Journal is the NPPA Region 4 POY for 2010 knocking off 2009 winner Marshall Gorby from the Springfield News-Sun. The two were in a dead heat waiting on results from October in the monthly clip contest. When the results came in Garza had four...
Former Troy Daily News photographer killed in Libya
Former Troy Daily News photographer Chris Hondros, 41, was killed Wednesday while covering unrest between Libyan government troops and rebels. Hondros, a North Carolina State graduate completed his masters degree at Ohio University in 1996. Also killed in the mortar...
ONPA Quarterly television contest to resume
After hearing from several new members and with the commitment of those who were entering, the ONPA Quarterly Television Clip Contest will continue in 2011. The normal first quarter deadline has been extended until April 30 to give photographers time to submit their...
Still contest judges comment on small market POY category
Judges in the 2010 ONPA year-end contest chose not to recognize any portfolios in the small market POY category. Their decision brought an immediate reaction from the staff of one of the newspapers affected when no award given for the category was posted online....
Lisa Dejong wins 2010 POY title
Lisa DeJong from The Plain Dealer has been chosen ONPA Photographer of the Year for 2010 by the Ohio News Photographers Association. It is the second POY win for DeJong who also won for her work in 2008. Finishing second in competition was Gus Chan from The...
Let the judging begin
The single categories in the ONPA annual still contest have all been judged and results and galleries have all been posted on the ONPA website. All the results are in from the Online Photojournalism contest can be found there as well.The Plain Dealer leads the Staff...
Schedule set for judging and educational seminar
The schedule for the combined ONPA still contest judging, educational seminar and business meeting is now set for the three-day event which begins Thursday night at The Columbus Dispatch.Still contest judging will begin Thursday evening and continue on Friday.Results...
Levy, Crow and DeJong Headliner Award winners
Andrea Levy, Chuck Crow and Lisa DeJong of The Plain Dealer are among the winners in the 77th annual National Headliner Awards, sponsored by The Press Club of Atlantic City, N.J..Levy won first place for Illustrative Graphics. Crow placed third in Newspaper Sports...
Jeff Ritter is ONPA Quarterly Television Clip POY
In a very close race Jeff Ritter from WBNS-TV in Columbus has won the 2010 ONPA Television Quarterly Clip Contest Photographer of the Year title. It is the first clip POY title for Ritter, who has won the year-end POY crown the past two years. Ritter edged out last...
Dancing with a celebrity
Wanted to share a video of former ONPA member Doug Oster who recently competed in Dancing with the Celebrities of Pittsburgh. Oster was paired with dancer Cathy Kelly for the charity event.And yes he is a celebrity in Pittsburgh. Between his work at the Post-Gazette,...
Russell wins fourth ONPA Clip POY title
Chris Russell of The Columbus Dispatch rallied in the final month and became only the second person to win four ONPA Clip Photographer of the Year titles. Russel won previouslly in 2006, 2004 and 1997.Russell's win for 2010 came at the expense of co-worker Neal Lauron...
Convention and judging move to The Columbus Dispatch
It is clearly a year of change for the annual ONPA convention and seminar in 2011. This year’s event April 7-9 in Columbus will be combined with the still contest judging and be held at The Columbus Dispatch.Still contest judging will begin Thursday evening and...
Harwood exhibit to open at Joseph Saxton Gallery on Friday
The work of longtime ONPA member Gary Harwood from Kent State University, will be on display at the Joseph Saxton Gallery of Photography, in Canton, from February 4 to May 21, 2011The exhibit is a collection of his work taken over 30 years as a photographer and will...
Clip contest dam has burst
A backlog of clip contest results are now being processed with winners notifications having now being sent via e-mail. There are five months of results coming with each months winners listed in separate e-mails. Please take the time to check each months e-mail and...
Larry Fullerton Photojournalism Scholarship entries now being accepted
The Larry Fullerton Photojournalism Scholarship was established at The Dayton Foundation through contributions from Larry Fullerton's family and friends to assist students pursuing careers in photojournalism. Larry Fullerton was a long time member of ONPA and both a...
Year-end contest rules available for download
Contest season is once again upon us and the rules for the ONPA year-end still, online photojournalism and television contests are available to download. Rules are available on the ONPA website under the Contest Rules tab at the top of the page, or you can click on...
Warriors Journey Home
Laura Fong Torchia, a senior visual journalism major at Kent State University has embarked on a three-week mission to chronicle the Warriors Journey Home ministry as they travel to Vietnam. Five Vietnam veterans are included in the group as they take the opportunity...
Squillante, Humel named Ohio SPJ Best Photographers
Fred Squillante from The Columbus Dispatch and Chuck Humel from The (Elyria) Chronicle-Telegram were recognized as Best Photographers in the 14th annual Ohio SPJ Awards.Squillante was the winner for newspapers over 100,000 circulation. Ed Suba Jr of the Akron Beacon...
Quarterly television contest is a toss up
After two quarters Billy Muhammed from WJW-TV in Cleveland is in first place with 2009 clip POY Steve Maguire from WBNS-TV in Columbus tailing by just one point on the ONPA Quarterly Television Clip Contest. Jeff Ritter from WBNS, the year-end POY for the past to...
Staff changes
With the economy being what is is, its been quite some time since we've reported on staff changes that weren't layoff related, but several have taken place recently.ONPA's former webmaster Apryl Pilolli is once again working with a camera in her hand moving from the...
Dispatch dominating monthly clip contest
The ONPA Monthly Clip Contest results logjam has broken as we now have results for April and May. Positions at the top of the standings have scrambled since March, but no one new has cracked the top ten. The contest is clearly being dominated by photographers at The...
Former Topeka photographers surprise former DOP
Some may have worked for less than three years under Director of Photography, Rich Clarkson, but 35 former Topeka Capital-Journal photographers took time out to drop in on their former boss now living in Eugene, Oregon.The reunion was the brainchild of Brian Lanker...
Kodachrome: The Final Frames
Those who still talk about the good old days can all feel a little older now after reading about the last roll of Kodachrome which has now been processed. The images were taken by Steve McCurry in New york City and India. The final three frames were taken in Parsons,...
Region 4 clip contest results
With four of the first six months judged we check in on the NPPA Region 4 Monthly Clip Contest results.The usual suspects can be found among the winners in April. Barbara Perenic from the Springfield News-Sun placed first and second in Sports. Mike Ullery from the...
Designing the exit of LeBron James
With the LeBron James' free agent circus behind us the story about how the story was presented in Cleveland has now been shared by assistant managing editor David Kordalski in an interview by Charles Apple on Poynter Online.The day after "the decision" front page...
Kent State to host David LaBelle’s “Picture With Purpose” workshop
The Third Annual "Pictures With Purpose" storytelling workshop with Dave LaBelle will be at Kent State University, July 7-15. LaBelle bills this not as a "knock-you-down” boot camp where you will be bullied, embarrassed or intimidated, but a magical, life-changing...
ONPA March clip contest results
Fred Squillante from The Columbus Dispatch was the big winner in the March ONPA monthly clip contest. Squillante won first and second in the feature category and placed first in general news to pick up 142 points. Bill Lackey of the Springfield News-Sun also had three...
Have iPhone, will travel and shoot
Former ONPA member Scott MacDonald who worked at the Zanesville Times Recorder back at the turn of the century returned to the Buckeye state recently and captured some images for his cellphone camera journal. The images were the Sportshooter centerpiece on Wednesday....
Robles to compete in Hearst finals
ONPA's Student Photographer of the Year for the past two years, Diego James Robles from Ohio University is one of six students that will compete in the 50th annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program's National Photojournalism Championship. The six finalists will compete...
ONPA February clip contest results
Photographers from The Columbus Dispatch hold down six of the top ten spots in the point standings after the first two months in the ONPA monthly clip contest. Dispatch photographers, Chris Russell, Kyle Robertson and Neal Lauron all had three wins in February each...
No charges to be filed against Lantern photographer
With stories circulating earlier this week about Lantern photographer Alex Kortran being on his own to defend himself while facing criminal trespass charges several journalists and organizations have offered support and donations.Kortran will still obtain legal...
Gorby’s “secrets” revealed
ONPA clip contest chairman Neal Lauron from The Columbus Dispatch couldn't resist having some fun at Marshall Gorby's expense after Gorby won the clip contest POY title recently after finishing second in the standings on several occasions. For those of you who did not...
Lantern photographer on his own for defense
Ohio State university student Alex Kortran appears to be on his own in defense of criminal trespass charges as a result of trying to photograph cows which were running loose on campus recently. A story on the school newspaper website The Lantern says that it appears...
Chan, Joeright, Graham, Miller and Bullock best in AP contest
Newspapers in Columbus, Canton, Sandusky, Ashland and Washington Court House were named the best in the state Sunday in the annual Associated Press Society of Ohio newspaper competition. General Excellence awards for 2009 went to The Columbus Dispatch, The...
Lantern photographer facing trespass charges
Alex Kortran, photographer for the Ohio State University student newspaper The Lantern, was detained last week by campus police and is facing criminal trespass charges.Kortran was attempting to make images of police and university workers corral two cows who were...
Tweet me
Tweets are all the buzz these days and ONPA will now have a Twitter presence.Thanks to the efforts of Malinda Hartong from the Cincinnati Enquirer you can now share your videos, galleries, links and thoughts to the ONPA community and our followers. For all you...
Convention wrap
In many walks of life continuing education sessions are looked upon as a necessary evil, in some cases even required. For visual journalists the seminars are a forum to learn and be inspired. Such was the case this past weekend for the annual ONPA convention and...
The State of Union on my way out the door
Well no one ever decided there should be term limits so I took it upon myself to implement my own after 12 years as chairman of the board. When former ONPA member Doug Oster talked me into this, oh those many years ago, I never thought I would change jobs and move...
Marshall Gorby is NPPA Region 4 Photographer of the Year
Well I guess good things do come to all who wait, and wait, and wait. When the waiting was all over Marshall Gorby of the Springfield News-Sun was the NPPA Region 4 Photographer of the Year for 2009. Gorby, who has been in first place in Region 4 since June, has had...
ONPA Seminar schedule set
The schedule is now set for the annual ONPA educational seminar this weekend at the Columbus Airport Marriott.The program begins Friday evening at 7pm with a video workshop by Glenn and Malinda Hartong from the Cincinnati Enquirer. Their presentation will be most...
Time to register is now
You've put it off for weeks, but the time has now come to register for the ONPA convention this weekend at the Columbus Airport Marriott.You can register online on the ONPA Website. Save yourself $10 and register in advance. It is a very simple process.Seminar...
January clip contest results
Two first place wins put Chris Russell of The Columbus Dispatch at the top of the leader board in the ONPA Monthly Clip Contest. There were quite a few other multiple winners in January. Kyle Robertson, Tom Dodge and Eric Albrecht, all co-workers of Russell were among...
Gorby still in front in Region 4
The Springfield News-Sun's Marshall Gorby widened his lead over Matt Detrich in the NPPA Region 4 Monthly Clip Contest by sweeping the spot news category in December. Detrich who had two wins wins himself in December trails Gorby by 162 points.The contest is not over...
Two NPPA Televison POYs added to ONPA seminar faculty
The final speakers for this year's ONPA education seminar are now in place with the addition of NPPA Television Photographer of the Year, Darren Durlach of WBFF-TV, Baltimore and Dave Delozier from KUSA-TV, Denver, the NPPA 2009 Solo Video Journalist of the Year.This...